Barry Cooper:
Associate Teaching Pastor
Barry Cooper was born in Epsom, Surrey, and holds an MA in English Language and Literature from St Catherine’s College, Oxford. He went on to pursue an MA in Christian Studies from Trinity Evangelical Divinity School in Chicago and has interned at Capitol Hill Baptist Church in Washington DC.
In June 2019 he became Supervising Producer at Ligonier Ministries, leaving in December 2022 to become Associate Teaching Pastor here at Christ Community Church.
He currently lives in DeLand with his wife, Lee, and his two daughters.
Throughout his career, Barry has been involved in much writing and media production. You can check out some of his works below:
- Producer/writer/presenter of Simply Put
- Presenter/co-writer of the Luther: In Real Time (Best Original Podcast, National Religious Broadcasters Awards 2023)
- Co-producer/presenter of Cooper & Cary Have Words (Podcast Of The Year, Premier Digital Awards 2018)
- Presenter of Stephen McCaskell’s feature-length documentary LUTHER.
- Writer of the feature-length documentaries PURITAN and THE CHURCH
- Writer of the six-part mini-series MISSIONARY (forthcoming)
- Writer and presenter of the Discipleship Explored film series
- Co-writer and co-presenter of the Life Explored film series
- Co-writer and co-director of the Christianity Explored film series
- Authored and co-authored a number of books including One Life, If You Could Ask God One Question and Can I Really Trust The Bible?